Porritt Group Quotes & Sayings

The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest. — Sam Storms

And a keen jealousy invades me, not of other people, but of that me made of ink and periods and commas, who wrote the novels I will write no more, the author who continues to enter the privacy of this young woman, while I, I here and now, with the physical energy I feel surging, much more reliable than the creative impulse, I am separated from her by the immense distance of a keyboard and a white page on the roller. — Italo Calvino

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp — Ai Weiwei

I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platform for parents and teachers to have frank, meaningful discussions with those young people. — Sharon Draper

Every time, I try to make something different. — Barbet Schroeder

The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away in women's hearts and minds for millennia. Historically, women have either been reduced to nothing but their sexuality or stripped of it entirely: the Madonna or the whore. — Karen Essex

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. — Eric Clapton

He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did. — Joan Bauer

Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge! — Thomas Watson

These days, NORAD's peak period of public visibility is at Christmastime when it tracks the course of Santa and his sleigh. — Ted Koppel

It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour. — Ana De La Reguera

Sometimes it is good to breach the rules
so as to achieve an end,
Yet keep an edge and not break or bend. — Mira Midha

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor. — Henry Rollins